Political Affairs of the Heart : Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775-1800 / Linda Van Netten Blimke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Netten Blimke, Linda, author.

Series:

Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture 1650-1850

Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women.

Travel writing--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Travel writing.

Travel writers--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Travel writers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to women's engagement with national and gender politics. This study examines four travel narratives written by women between 1774 and 1795, convincingly arguing that they effectively deploy the discourse of sensibility to engage with debates around Britain's national identity during the French and American Revolutions. Van Netten Blimke contends that Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey (1768)-which first introduced sentimental discourse to the travelogue-facilitated women's gradual inclusion into this previously male-dominated genre, effectively paving the way for women to influence the country's sociopolitical transformation. These four previously understudied works successfully combine eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility to mount impassioned interventions in their nation's perception and practice of revolutionary politics, at a time when its national identity was most in flux"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Introduction: Critical Contexts: Eighteenth-Century Women's Travel Writing

Part One: Mobile Feelings: Mapping the Sentimental Traveler

1. "Altogether of a Different Cast": The Development of the Sentimental Traveler

Part Two: Divided Sympathies: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the American Revolution

2. "I Am Sure You Will Share My Feelings": Janet Schaw's Journal of a Lady of Quality, Imperial Desire, and the American Revolution

3. The Ties That Bind: Sentimentalizing Colonialism in A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland

Part Three: Sensibility in Distress: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the French Revolution

4. Revitalizing Sensibility: Mary Morgan's Defense of Emotional Engagement in A Tour to Milford Haven

5. "A Renovation of Existence": Helen Maria Williams's A Tour in Switzerland and the Renewal of Political Vision

Epilogue: "An Affair of the Heart"

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Blimke, Linda Van Netten Political Affairs of the Heart

ISBN:

9781684484096

OCLC:

1313892331